An artistic depiction of a chromosome that is missing some of its "lights," representing rare diseases where people are missing relatively large portions of their genome from one parent.

The Homo sapiens genome today contains a little ... contains versions of several of the same genes that are found in the modern human Y chromosome. In modern humans, a Y chromosome gene called ...

A high-quality genome assembly of Silene latifolia was generated by researchers at CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and ...

Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden made an unexpected discovery while investigating genetically unique women.

Human biological ... PLOS Genetics said the chromosome's evolution of palindromes — DNA sequences that read the same forward as backward — and repetitive copies of genes could keep it from ...

To turn genes off and on, cells use Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes ... than the width of a human hair." "Once we understand how SMC molecular motors shape DNA, we may start asking what ...

Using genome-editing ... [Gorodenkoff/Getty Images] The research team used specialized gene editing tools to identify and fix problems in the synthetic chromosome affecting how well the yeast ...

Preserving these genes and others like them might have taken priority over keeping the chromosome compact, Dr. Charlesworth said. Much of the Y’s bulk is made up of pieces of DNA that have a ...